. >> michael: joe biden shows signs he might run. he'll be in iowa to speak. and public policy polling put out a survey of what hawk eye dems are thinking at least for now. in july they mound clinton leads biden 71-12. it's hard to say what might happen in the 2016 campaign, except that it's starting way too early, after all president obama was only reelected nine months ago. at this time in the cycle, no one considered the new senator with a funny came to even with a candidate. so who knows what might happen. joining us from washington is mitch stewart, founding partner at 270 strategies and the former battleground states director of the obama for america campaign, and the man who has sent me more emails than anyone alive. thanks for being on our show, mitch. >> my pleasure, michael, thanks for having me. >> michael: one of them could have said i had like $$140 million waiting for me in nigeria, but none of them saad that. how do you campaign for someone who is not even a candidate yet? >> well, i think you said a couple of things in the prelude to this that